Colorado Real Estate Broker Exam — All Questions

A city adopts an ordinance dividing land into residential, commercial, and industrial districts and limiting building heights in each. This exercise of government authority is known as:

• a.Police power through zoning✓
• b.The power of eminent domain
• c.Escheat
• d.A private deed restriction

Zoning is an exercise of a government's police power, the authority to regulate for public health, safety, and welfare, without paying compensation. Eminent domain differs because it takes property and requires just compensation. Escheat returns property to the state when an owner dies without heirs, and deed restrictions are private, not governmental, controls.